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Of the more than 18 million Texans who are eligible to vote, only about a quarter cast ballots in last November's gubernatorial election. As often happens during election season, a majority of Texans stayed home.

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There's never been a shortage of competition for the title of Worst Lawyer in Texas. A top contender for years was the now-deceased Joe Cannon, who slept through much of the 1984 capital murder trial of his client Calvin Burdine, resulting in a death sentence that was later overturned on appeal.

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to reporters, but he wouldn't take our calls," said Keith Davis, who lost his mother, Bobbie; his sister, Nicole; his six-year-old daughter, Brittany; his five-year-old daughter, Lea'Erin; his niece, Denitra; and his nephew, Jason, in the crime. "During the trial, Charles would put his arm around me and tell me that his only agenda was to seek justice for our family.

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THEY HAD NAMES LIKE KAYLEE AND HAILEY and Ashley and Brittany, and they all had long legs and glossy hair and tan summer skin. More than a thousand of them-1,345 cheerleaders from across Texas-had come to Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, on a sticky afternoon in June for the first day of cheer camp, and a clutch of mothers and squirming little sisters was taking in the view.

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It's been nine long years since the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Charles Sebesta, the Burleson County DA who prosecuted Anthony Graves for capital murder, had withheld favorable evidence and used false testimony to secure a conviction-a conviction that sent Graves to death row.

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Nine years after Hannah Overton's nightmarish journey through the criminal justice system began, it ended just as abruptly, yesterday afternoon, when Nueces County District Attorney Mark Skurka called her attorney, Cynthia Orr, to inform her that he had made a motion to dismiss capital murder charges against her.

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gays and lesbians and their feelings about gays and lesbians getting married, millions of Texans have been on that very same journey," Chuck Smith, the executive director of the LGBT-rights group Equality Texas, told me. State lawmakers, meanwhile, have been slower to come around.

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The epicenter of the culture wars in Texas at this particular moment is an otherwise unremarkable two-story tan-brick house with a tidy yard in the farthest reaches of the South Austin suburbs.

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Less than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in United States v. Windsor -which gutted the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that defined marriage as the union between one man and one woman-legislatures and judiciaries in state after state have overturned bans on same-sex marriage.